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A Week in Winter

Set on the west coast of Ireland, a mesmerising book from the much-loved No. 1 bestselling author.The Sheedy sisters had lived in Stone House for as long as anyone could remember. Set high on the...

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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

This is a short pamphlet containing two magical realist short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to...

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and...

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A Room with a View

E.M. Forster’s vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England, A Room with a View contains an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury in Penguin...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Playful and experimental, James Joyce’s autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

‘Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ‘ So begins one...

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A Feast for Crows (Reissue) (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the...

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A Dance With Dragons: Part 2 After the Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE...

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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.’What’s...

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A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world’s best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other...

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Nineteen Eighty-four

Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey’s new look for Orwell’s classic dystopian taleOne of Britain’s most popular novels, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a...

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The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth...

The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one...

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The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O’Brien

Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most...

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Dark Places

Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away . . . the gripping second novel from the author of the mega-bestselling GONE GIRL.Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother...

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Cuchulainn and the Crow Queen

These stories have been told for 2,000 years. At their heart stands the great Ulster hero, Cuchulainn and on his shoulder sits a dark goddess in the form of a crow. She is the mistress of chaos,...

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Reveries of the Solitary Walker

‘These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself’ Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau’s last great work, the product of his final years of exile...

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The Scarlet Letter

‘Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.’ With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet ‘A’...

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Sense and Sensibility

“Pray, pray be composed,” cried Elinor, “and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.” For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic,...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr...

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Moby Dick

This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville’s masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab’s frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby...

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